Quotes About Overcoming

Non sono più la ragazza di un tempo. Non lo sono più. Sono più forte senza di lui. Sono più forte perché mi ha spezzato il cuore. E non gli permetterò di farlo ancora

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Says Momma: "I got handed lemons, too, y'know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that's life for you. It ain't sweet.

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.

You should have no fear," said Harriet. "There's no sense in fear." "I've been afraid all my life, Harriet," said Michael. "Nonsensical all your life, you mean," said Harriet. "But a person being nonsensical through the first half of his life is no reason to my way of thinking why he should be nonsensical through the second half too. It's nice to have a bit of change.

When he had first come to Mr. Peabody he had not wanted to look back. He had felt like someone just awake after a nightmare, and afraid to think about it lest it catch him again, but now the evil had receded so far that he liked to set it as a backcloth to the procession of his shining days.

Pride takes a lot of breaking.

se ti lasci sopraffare da un'esperienza brutta o dolorosa e decidi di non esporti mai più alla possibilità che accada di nuovo, è come smettere di attraversare la strada per timore di essere investiti.

Twice-Born people use the difficult changes in their outer lives to make the harder changes within.

Now he was emerging, like a phoenix from the ashes, with new wings and an open heart. I

Don't worry about it." "When you're me, there's always something to worry about. Everything goes wrong for me, and you know it.

The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.

An accident?' Sian gave a caustic laugh. 'Great! Knowing I was merely one of life's kerbstones over which you happened to trip makes me feel a whole bunch better.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

God-monster, ruler of my world. ~Kyla

Sometimes, in the afternoon, if the soaps aren't any good, I'll watch movies about angry, scared women who fight back or teenage girls who suffer but then overcome. There are always shower scenes in them, shots of the women scrubbing their abuse or grief away. I don't understand this. You can't make yourself clean like that, and fresh-scrubbed skin only invites attention.

You can become bigger or bitter, this is what I think. And as a result of that pain, I became bigger.

Lucy. You deal with everything.

Zo zal het straks dus zijn, …, in vogelvlucht ene continent te kunnen oversteken, te zien hoe het ene land na het andere onder je voorbijtrekt, over alle grenzen heen verbroedering te kunnen brengen en begrip.

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

En ese último extremo, la única salvación de los vencidos es no esperar salvación alguna.